The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1887-10-28
Democratic Meetings in Bel Air.
Able speeches by senator German,
Robert Grain, Henry ID. Farnandis,
Gilbert Smith and John r. Poe.

Inc lhTSe ana beautiful Town Hall in the
Masonic Temple, Be- Air, was crowded on
Thursday afternoon and night by a gathering
OF enthusiastic Democrats, among whom there
were number of ladies.
The meeting was called to order by Hon.
Henry d. Faruandis, aud organized with the
following officers:
President, Col. John Carroll Walsh, Vice
Presidents, john Price, Ambrose Cooley, Geo
X. Cairnes, Thomas II. Nelson and benton
Daughcr.y Secretaries, Jas b. Preston and
Johu +. Hays.
Col. Walsh thanked the meeting for the com
pliment 1t paid him In making him chairman
and introduced as the first speaker
HON. ARTHUR p. GoRMAN.
Mr.. German was greeted with storm of ap-
plause. He expressed his qualification at meeting
his fellow Democrats, and especially the ladies,
for without their kindly aid aud presence the
Democratic party will never succeed. 1t had
been represented in this section, he had been
told, that the reason he had resigned the chair
manship of the State Central Committee to Mr..
Archer, was that the latter might meet with de-
feat. Instead of leading the party to defeat
Mr.. Archer had done better than the best of
| them and the majority in Baltimore is doubled.
Mr.. Gormau paid compliment to Hartford
county farmers, and said he was told here that
TO raise 2l13 barrels of corn to the acre as in
Hartford, you must apply thousand pounds of
fertlllZer per acre every five years. He had
| tried 1t two years and had to sell two farms to
save one, but tina. one is worth more than all
| three were worth before.
Yesterday aud the day before there were
many weak-kneed Democrats, but to-day Demo-
Gratis from Maine to California are p addened
by the news from Maryland. This State has
been made the battle ground, and the fate of
the contest for the Presidency was to be Judged
By the contest in Baltimore. 1t was desper-
ate struggle, under a false cry made by men
IRON distance who imported ballol-box stuff
ers 10 thwart the Will of the people. Thanks
to the vigilance of the State Committee these
| scoundreIs have been driven into their holes
and we have greater victory than any for the
past six years.
In the midst of this campaign of Islander and
abuse not Il word has been uttered against any
public officer for the last twenty years. The
management Of the financial affairs of our State
| is recognized As perfect. Economy is practced
in our State affairs to an extent almost parsi-
monious. There is not public trust that is
not well managed and honorably performed
If these so-called reformers by narrowing the
State could find nothing to say against Demo-
cratic management what would you do
under similar circumstances in your private af
fairs, but continue in office those who had con-
tl0uted 10 such magnificent results.
The charges Of balot-boX stuffing by some of
your leading men have been made 10 dvertpub.
lie attention from the real issues of the cam
paigm, that they may get into power aud rob
the people of taxes which ought to be paid by
| corporations
Mr.. German than paid his respects to John X.
! Cowen, who, he said is bold, audacious and un-
sciupulous; with no regard for living man or
| belief in the great Creator; who looks alone to
what he can get in this world Mr. German
said he would bow his head in shame if he
| thought Maryland could produce man like
| C0wen. He described how Cowen came from
| ONO to Mary and as the protegc of the late John
! W. Garrett, aud ambitiously aspired to be the
| power behind the throne In the Baltimore and
| OHIO RailOad lie conceived the idea of eX-
tending the road 10 Philadelphia and New
YORK and artfuly drew an act for the Legisa-
tuTe to pass which would forever exempt
every foot of the railroad in Maryland from ia x
alton. The Democratic Legislature refused to
| pass the bill except in an amended form, by
which the rights OF people were preserved, and
| from that day Cowen has been a reformer
MIR. German argued that in forming a new
| Constitution the people of Maryland could do
as the people in Pennsylvania have done, by
| providing in their Constitution that all corpor-
ate property in the State shall be taxed like
er'property, ard no corporation within the
State shall have any Legislation to permit it to
extend its lines or any further grant until it
| shall have submitted its property 10 taxa
ton. The result in Pennsylvania is that the
people are freed from any State tax whatever.
Another provision needed in a new Constitu-
ton, said MIR. German, is one to prevent ex-
| listing railroad or telegraph companies from
buying up each other, thereby creating a mo-
nopoy.
The people of Maryland said Mr.. German. will
continue 10 trust the party that has done so well
| for them.
The next speaker was Mr.. Robert Grain, of
baltimore city, who said that II he had come here
| to speak day before yesterday he would have
| tried to explain away the charge that he came
from city where thieves and murderers are in
| control. The people of Baltimore however have
heard the case and have decided that the charges
are gross injustice to them. The Democratic
party has pledged itself TO right any wrongs that
nptth ,la1,
50 lar py giving the people fair primaries and an
| honest election.
to see what the Democratic party would do, but
| said, we are going over to the pure Republican
party-a party which was born in corruption,
raised in an atmosphere of fraud and died with
Thomas Holiday Hicks and Henry Winter Davis.
Mr.. Grain urged the Democrats of Hartford to
bury their past differences and stand shoulder TO
shoulder, on the Sth of November, for the entire
| State and county ticket.
Col. Walsh then introduced Hon. Henry d.
| plause.
Mr.. Farnands said he merely wanted to call at
tentlon TO that state of paradisaical happiness
| McComas, says the Republican party want to
return to-the days of Hicks and Davis. He re-
ferred to the past because they own that the
principles which controlled the government in
| tnosc days Will inspire the government now, il
they can control it,. What was their conduct
them All OF us whose hairs are silvered and
those upon whom the SHOWS are beginning to fall
remember that three-fourths of the citizens ofthe
! state were spurued from the polls and they made
constitution to forever prevent us from voting.
In 1861 the Democrats obtained control. Has
| any man been deprived of his political rights
since! Has there been defaulter in the State
Are you willing that shall continue or do you
! want TO go back to the days of Thomas Holi-
day Hicks and Henry Winter Davis? Republ-
canism as i was, so it is now, The principles
| that inspired 1t in the days of Hicks and Davis
| will inspire II now. They say their principles
are unchanged. win you go back to those days?
| They have committed outrage upon outrage
| Ilpy nave stolen the Presidency nj cd
elections. Have you ever heard Republican
denuunce these things? On the other hand they
| bring charges against the Democratic party and
| its leaders. Instead of saying, prove your char
| yes, Democrat after Democrat assumes they are
true. ~ our convention, we conceded, without
| PROOF, that there were wrongs and promised to
| remedy them. The Rentlemen calling themselves
| Independent Democrats said, we want to purf-
fy. we want fair registration and free ballot
me democratic convention appointed commit
tee TO select judges for the primaries. The
morning after tne primaries were held the coun-
| sci of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad MR.
! Cowenl met me and said
mir. Farnandis, you ought to feel comfortable
to-day. | was one of those who did not believe
| your committees in the time allowed. could have
arranged for the elections in such way. | have
not heard one man put his finger on single spot
| or make the first complaint"
Have any of you heard of any unfairness in
the baltimore primaries? 1t is true | may be
'as deaf as Republican Judge" but | have
heard me response OF the people to the SANDER
erS logic, TO his pledge of personal veracity.
These men say they won't trust the pledges of
Democratic convention but will trust the simple
assurance of the Republican party. They are
| for civil service reform. Do you remember a
Democrat appointed to office under Republican
ruler
In Hartford we have had our little difficulty,
but ask my friends is there any reason why we
should not leave every name on the Democratic
ticket unscratched? Hartford stands not on par
ticular men, but firm to her principles and will
do her best to elect the whole ticket.
AT night the large hall was filled to overflow
ing. telling speeches being made by Hon. John
7. Poe and Mr.. Gilbert Smith, of Baltimore. Mr.
POE exposed the fallacy of the charge of corrup-
ton brought by the Republicans and reformers
against the officers OF registration and judges of
election. and MIR. Smith made an effective argu-
ment In behalf of the Democratic ticket. Mr..
Smith was formerly Republican, but left that